Figured I'll mention it here too.

I'm accepting new commissions and announced it at https://bsky.app/profile/jonswell.b...../3lpctsgfgfs2k

Here's a link to the google form: https://forms.gle/1KWDJqiuGnUsJg7d8

This is not first come first served.

Let me know if you have any questions in comments or DM.

Announcing that I have opened a couple of commission slots!

This is NOT first come first serve, so take your time to read all the information carefully and fill out the form completely.
Clicking on this link or the one one posted on my front page will take you to the information as well as the link to the google form.
I will look through all the requests and let everyone know in a few days if they got a slot or not, if you don't get a slot now there is the possibility of carrying the request over to the next time I fill the queue.
Thank you everyone for showing your interest!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing

Just letting people know I'm finally officially open for commissions again!

I got a limited number of slots and it's NOT first come first served, so take your time reading through the TOS and filling out the form that can all be found Here.

Thank you everyone for showing interest! <3

Hello everyone!

As of writing this I am almost done with my commission queue finally which took me about 10 months to get through, so let me start by apologizing to everyone who had to wait an unreasonably long time before I contacted them.

While I am looking forward to doing more personal art and maybe start doing a bit of animating again, I am also going to need to raise a fair bit of capital, as I am looking to upgrade my PC which is overdue.

I decided to keep my old commission prices while working through this queue, but unfortunately I will have to raise them some the next time I open up for commissions, since this is now my sole means of income.

What I would like to ask now from people is if they have any suggestions or ideas for things like YCH auctions, donations drives and such, since I am completely inexperienced when it comes to handling those.
I already have one or two ideas I'd like to try, but I would still like to hear what sort of stuff you would like to see from me? Like would people be into if I started posting more feral/quad situations?
Situations involving any of my OCs? Would a multi-character YCH be more interesting then something just featuring one or two characters?

I know that YCH may not be everyone's cup of tea, and I fully admit that there was a time when I scoffed at the idea of making what I considered "too much" money on a single drawing, but overly long commission queues I now find very stressful, and sometimes they leave me drawing something I don't feel very motivated or into to make.

So please, if you have any tips or suggestions for how to handle them, what prices you might consider reasonable, or just themes and ideas of what you would like to see me draw, please leave a comment!


As always I deeply appreciate everyone who follows me, leaves a comment or fav, I wouldn't be able to do this without you guys. <3

Hey y'all!

Just thought I'd let people know it up in case anyone feels like tipping. :P

In other news I updated my user page a little which was long overdue.

As for commissions they are going quite well I think and should be coming out faster now that I'm working on them full time.
Gonna try and get hold of all of you who asked for a slot to make sure you still are interested when it's your turn.

Hey guys! Just letting you know that my Patreon page is now live.

It's still very bare-bones as I'm gonna focus on first cleaning up my commission backlog before I start introducing any polls or animation projects, but most of my new art is gonna get posted there with early access to my patrons.
It's not a pay-wall so the art is gonna get posted publicly about a week or so later, just think of it as a tip jar for now and if you want to take a peek at my stuff a little earlier, along with some WIP stuff. :)

https://www.patreon.com/JonSwell

Hello everyone,

I felt it best to make a journal concerning this since it's quite a big update.

A few months ago my husband landed a good job in Northern Ireland, and we decided that it was time we moved away from Poland, we waited a while to make sure everything would be working out and that Brexit wouldn't interfere with our stay, finally when we felt confident that we would be fine I handed in my resignation to my full-time job and today was my last day.

In a week I'm flying over to Northern Ireland to rejoin my husband and I have decided that I am finally going to give it a try to work full time as an artist since it's something I've always been interested to try, but too scared to make the attempt until now.

This means that I will soon be opening up a Patreon page and try to use that alongside regular commission work as my main source of income, and I will greatly appreciate any assistance or advice that people can provide, since I haven't tried anything outside of traditional commission work yet.

My plan is still to work my way through my backlog, since I have a few of those left, and I apologize sincerely to everyone who's had to wait for so long.
Hopefully now with my schedule cleared I will be able to work my way through the list faster.

There will be a short hiatus after I move, since I won't be able to bring my stationary computer with me, and will need to buy a new casing and parts to connect my hard-drives, but hopefully it won't be more then a few days.

I think this about sums it up, been really stressed about this and I don't expect my nerves to cool down fully until after the move is done, but until then I have a few days to wind down, try and get more commission work done and start planning on what to pack with me.

I thank everyone for your patience and well wishes, and hope I'll be able to settle down quickly and provide you all with more of my wacky porn and non-porn!


If you'd like to support me by sending a donation, please check out ko-fi.com/jonswell which I use as a tip jar, anything is greatly appreciated!
You can also find me at https://twitter.com/SwellJon and https://twitter.com/DrawsJon which is my newly created SFW page.

I am finally open for commissions again, only took something like 10 years ._.;

You can find the price sheet here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/29160798/ together with contact information.
If you rather handle it over email or some other method let me know.

UPDATE: Not accepting any more slots for now, I got a looooot of requests in and it will take me a while to get through them all.
Thank you to everyone who showed interest and I'm very sorry to all of those who didn't get in. <:3

Since a lot of people have been asking me about this I thought I'd write a quick journal about.

I promise you people I WILL open up commissions soon! Just please give me a bit more time to do some other stuff first.
I've been dying to draw some pokemon related pics and this is like the only time I get to do that.
I've also had a lot of people ask me to do them first once I start doing commissions again, and since I can't really say no to people it's starting to get a bit confusing to keep track of everyone I'm really suppose to draw for. <:(

I will let everyone know when I'm ready and you don't have to worry that you have to snag a slot first because I will try to draw at least one pic for everyone, and those who maybe want sequences and stuff I will maybe draw like one or two pics and then for someone else before continuing on.

Really I wish I could draw faster and pump out a pic a day like many other artists, but that's just gonna be impossible for me, remember that I'm working a full time job aswell.

I ask that everyone be patient, and I'm so sorry that it's taking so long, if anyone has any ideas they want to share in how the list can be kept shorter or appear to empty out quicker, please let me know.

Until then, thank you again to everyone for being okay with waiting.

Heya!

I just thought I'd let people know that I decided on trying out Twitter, ain't I an early bird?

Mostly I want some place to try and be a bit more social to people, look at funny gifs and try appear like an interesting person <:3

Might also put up sketches and such that I'm working on if it's anything people are interested in.

My twitter name is SwellJon , hope to see some of you around! :3

Hey I just thought I'd let you people know that I can also be found over at Weasyl and Furry Network.
I'm making an effort to upload my work in those galleries as well.
Not planning on quiting FA, I just thought it would be good to have some viability elsewhere and backup for the next time the site is brought down. :P

Over at Weasyl I'm called Jonswell https://www.weasyl.com/~jonswell
Over at Furry Network I'm called Jon https://beta.furrynetwork.com/jon/

I just wanted to take the time to really thank the influx of new watchers I've been receiving.
It means a lot to me and I hope that I will live up to your expectations.
Hopefully I can draw something nice to express my thanks in more detail later.

And besides the new watchers I also want to thank everyone who takes time to write a comment or favorite one of my pictures, I appreciate and read every comment I get, no matter how short it may be.

Can't really think of anything else to say besides really, Thank you!

Hey people!

I have a question for those of you who might be drawing a bit like me.
Have any of you used Krita?

I'm debating if I should try to move from SAI to Krita, it sure seems to have more options when it comes to pens, and I would like try to do something new with my art.

So if any of you are using those two programs, what do you think?
Any suggestions or tips?
Which one do you prefer?

I appreciate all kinds of feedback. :)

Hey people,

I just thought I'd let you know I'm gonna have to go away for probably around 2 weeks.
We're having the bathroom renovated and will need to move out of the apartment during that time.
I won't have any access to my computer and won't be able to work on any art, I apologize to all the people who are waiting for me to draw for them.
We could probably have prepared for this better, and again I am really sorry. <:c

Since I keep getting new ones all the time over private messaging and such, I'm just going to write up a list of the people currently waiting for me to draw for them.
I will keep adding people for as long as they are seriously interested, or I feel the list is getting too long.
My prices can be found on my front page and gets negotiated with each person.

In a loosely defined order:

0. TRADE:Muscle/Toon. Finished, waiting for others part.
1. COMMISSION: Inflation sequence. Finished.
2. COMMISSION: Two inflation drawings. Finished.
3. COMMISSION: One inflation drawing/reference sheet. Finished
5. COMMISSION :Two inflation drawings, Finished.
6. COMMISSION :Up to three inflation drawings, Finished
7. COMMISSION :One inflation drawing. Finished
8. COMMISSION Finished
9. COMMISSION Working
10. COMMISSION Finished

I've come down with what I think is the flu since Friday and I'm freaking out over how it feels like I'm never getting any better!!!
My fever went down a bit the last two days but now it's back up where I started.
Constant headache and eyestrain makes it almost impossible to do anything at all, I can barely keep food down, and the only medicine I have is painkillers to reduce the fever.
Haven't been able to get hold of any doctors appointments since Sunday because of my shitty medical insurance company. >:/

Halp! what do I doooooo?

Heya!

I don't think it's really necessary, but I felt like I should inform people I decided to clean up my gallery a bit and throw it all in the bin!
Actually I just moved a bunch of stuff into the scraps section, in case anyone was looking for something specific. UwU

*rolls out*

Hello!

So after looking for alternatives and really finding none that is as convenient and easy as Paypal I've decided to swallow my pride and open a new account.

And with a new paypal account comes commissions for those who want them.
I will start working on them shortly, once I complete one more drawing.
No promises, but I might start accepting animation projects at some point in the future, I'm trying to learn some basic methods right now.
For now, you're same old cave drawings.

10 slots in total.

Prices are on my front page.
If you have an idea of a different coloring or drawing technique you'd like me to use then the ones listed on my page, let me know and we can discuss it.

1. "Finished"
2. "Finished"
3. "Finished"
4. "Finished"
5. "Finished"
6. "Finished"
7. "Finished"
8. "Finished"
9. "Finished"
10. "Finished"

Without going into too much detail, I've had to close my paypal account.
I could make another one, but since paypal like their users to be country specific, and I don't feel like creating a new one everytime I move somewhere I've decided I'm not gonna open up a new one.
So does anyone know of any alternative to paypal?
Or am I going to need to accept payment for commissions in eggs and hens? :|

Woohoo!

I just noticed I passed 2,000 watchers. :D
Meanwhile I've seen people who either draw stick figures or who just buys art from others with more watchers and page views then I have.

Eeeehhh... pay no mind to me, I just woke up so I'm grumpy. |3
I'll try to do some sort of "milestone" pic later.

Hey guys a somewhat serious question here, just something I've been thinking about and was wondering if anyone else has an opinion on it.

What it comes down to is if I make it more difficult for other fellow artists?
I mean in the sense that I charge too little compared to those who really make a living from drawing.

For me I generally don't care about the price, I just charge about as much as I would like to pay if I was to commission a drawing from some, because I don't think a drawing of neon colored cartoon animals, screwing warrants a $500 price tag... and also because I already have a well enough income job that I treat this as a hobby which just generates a bit of extra money I can spend on the occasional game.

But I know that there are those out there drawing to meet ends meet and I'm wondering if it screws it up for them when you have artists like me who maybe charge way less then they are worth?
Now I don't wanna come off like I am some saint who just gives away drawings for free because I am such a nice guy, but generally the money I make off of this I don't really need to put food on my table.

So the bottom line is, is there any artists out there who begrudge me for charging too little and making it harder for them to receive commissions with their pricing model?
Or am I really putting too much thought into this? X-)

Hellooooooo~
I know it's just been a day but I was expecting at least a few replies on my last journal. D:
Nobody that wants a sketch or two? <:3

I'm gonna start posting the few doodles I've been doing the last month, and I figured maybe someone would be interesting in getting one like that?
They save me a lot of time which helps now that I'm working full time, and I figure 10-15 bucks is a fair price?

Lemme know who would be interested or just wants a plain 'ol commission with colors, I wanna try to get back into drawing, but with my tight schedule I don't know how many I can take on at a time and it might take a while to finish each drawing.

Hey everyone, so after trying to move my data from one SD card to another I instead ended up losing all my saves and settings for the 3DS, meaning I now have none of your friend codes anymore.
And my own code has changed for some reason. :/
Sorry for this but could I bother you all to add me again?
I will do my best in looking up what your codes was.

My new code is: 2981-8484-0413

Any of you nerds out there who play Bravely Default?
I need friend codes to get some OP summons. :ísanerd: (is late to the party)
Otherwise I can settle it in smash yo!

Mine is: 5129-1623-8862